As more and more PS4s find their way to new owners we’re unfortunately getting quite a few reports of bricked consoles, and most of the issues appear to relate to either the HDMI port on the device or its hard-drive.

This thread on Reddit has a handy breakdown of the reported issues (as does this Pastebin post), and as you’ll see while a lot of the bricked console reports appear to come from people who won a free PS4 via the Taco Bell contest, there are others too, including from gaming publications such as IGN, GiantBomb and Kotaku.

Sony itself has weighed in on the issue both officially and unofficially. First it said that only 0.04% of pre-launch units that have shipped to date have been reported as defective. Meanwhile SCE Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida also acknowledged the issues via Twitter with the following:

Be assured we are investigating reported PS4 issues. The number is very small compared to shipped, we believe they are isolated incidents.

If you’ve got a non-responsive PS4 then the first thing we recommend you do is visit the official Playstation 4 support forums operated by Sony. This is the link.

If you want to follow our unofficial, non-warranted advice then you do so solely at your own risk! That said, here is something that has worked for some people – putting the console into safe mode and then recovering the operating system.

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